He took the cheque, cashed it, and paid the Senate back with a personal cheque.
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They live pay cheque to pay cheque, yet Saad considers her family is among the lucky ones.
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Americans who live pay cheque to pay cheque have few places to turn when they are in financial distress.
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They live pay cheque to pay cheque, yet Saad considers her family (pictured above) is among the lucky ones.
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I want to find someone who has been coming here for years, dispensing with pay cheque after pay cheque to the sweet, flawless roll of "Eclipse of the Heart".
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And there has always been uncertainty as to whether big-time professional boxers, who live from cheque to cheque, would risk embarrassment or injury by fighting in the Olympics for no financial gain.
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Someone should tell him, he probably didn't receive the cheque.
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"Democracy doesn't mean you get a blank cheque," Edano said.
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Taxpayers are understandably wary of handing over a blank cheque.
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The chancellor will surely need to bring out her cheque-book.
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You know if I have, I'm still waiting for the cheque.
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OWNERSHIP used to be about as straightforward as writing a cheque.
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Told the waitress to give her the cheque after he left.
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He denied backing Ms Sotomayor or writing a cheque for Planned Parenthood.
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"This blank cheque election offers no hope for UK science," he said.
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But Alan would never have been happy just handing over a cheque.
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That's a cheque for $278,000, on top of a lost $100,000 deposit.
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The bank had offered him a Lebanese pound cheque instead, he said.
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Basements with no windows, living pay cheque to pay cheque, and a growing isolation in a city seemingly robust and friendly in its social atmosphere when the reality is you're only sought out if you're useful to someone.
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Cheque sizes vary between €300,000 and €5 million; we are quite flexible there.
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"Let's wait until we get the cheque in the bank," du Plessis added.
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Abby: In no way has Rent Cheque ever or will ever pay my bills.
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The prize comprises a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for $1.1 million.
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As an amateur, Hill was not allowed to claim the winner's cheque of $13,500.
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If you ask for a blank cheque, don't be surprised if later it bounces.
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Forging a $43 cheque got him a prison sentence of ten years in 1960.
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A team of mostly unknowns earning a pay cheque playing in remote hockey outposts.
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Cheque size from the opportunity fund will be around $1 million to $3 million.
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Vocational degrees often sell you a linear path from passing exams to pay cheque.
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Deduct all this from a pay cheque and there may not be enough for groceries.
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A quarter of all deposits are now done using a cheque-photographing feature on smartphones.
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There was never any question of asking the UK to give us a blank cheque.
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The cheque, worth $11.4m today, provoked outrage and led to calls for campaign-finance reform.
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I'm told it plans to write a company's first cheque of up to €1 million.
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Those on the right line up, take a cheque and hope the deal goes well.
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VC may have already written its first cheque, backing a yet-to-launch London fintech startup.
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Masood got great tips—including, once, a cheque for $10,000, to take his family on holiday.
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Can you be more specific with regards to stage and cheque size you plan to write?
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What stage companies are you planning to invest in, and what is your average size cheque?
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Achieve this and your clients will be happy and your bonus cheque will have many digits.
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Mr Trump reminded Mr Cruz during the debate that he had once written him a cheque.
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He added that the firm was also the first in Britain to launch mobile cheque deposits.
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The median Social Security cheque has grown by 9% in real terms over the past decade.
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"We are not setting preconditions but nor is it a blank cheque," Barclay told BBC radio.
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"This additional financial support cannot be a blank cheque to these state-owned enterprises," Mboweni said.
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With the bigger pay cheque comes greater financial stability, but also a new source of angst.
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"When you think of that in the context of the Covid crisis, you are taking a group of people who are already living at or below the poverty line, living pay cheque to pay cheque, and adding all these stresses on top of that," she said.
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Certegy provides "no interest ever" consumer loans, a no interest product, and cheque-guarantee products in Australia.
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After her victory, the state government gave her a plot of land and a cheque for $2000,225.
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On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with kicking the tyres before writing a huge cheque.
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It is a blank cheque from a party in little doubt that the public will sign it.
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National teams can only look enviously at the IPL's bumper cheque, which marks two long-awaited milestones.
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But one day a chef from Atlanta asked for some and paid her a cheque for them.
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Certegy provides "no interest ever" consumer loans, an interest-free product, and cheque guarantee products in Australia.
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When Mr Rosenberg found out the Vision Fund's minimum cheque size was $100m, he turned it down.
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Services such as cash deposits and withdrawals, cheque clearances, ATM operations were affected, according to bank employees.
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He had also been disappointed by the "postal cheque" pace of decision-making involving cross-border cooperation.
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I had to submit two parent-signed forms and a $50 cheque to go to the Eureka!
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Under existing legislation, unpaid debt or the issue of a bounced cheque can lend businessmen in jail.
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They had only paid her $17 on one cheque, before switching her back to the lower salary.
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The constitution also recognises rights to education and health, but giving a pensioner a monthly cheque is easier.
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We focus mainly on Late Seed, Series A and Series B – $1 – $10m being the typical first cheque.
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Real-time payments would speed up cash flows, encourage electronic payments and squeeze cheque-cashers and payday lenders.
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According to chairman Harison Kitaa, the group expects to collect its first cheque in a few weeks' time.
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"A 70-year-old who'd been experimented on suddenly qualified for a $2,000 cheque from Germany," she said.
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It'll just be automatically sent via cheque following every purchase, so you can fully focus on that data.
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Labels from Detroit drove to Toronto, pushing a cheque for $20,000 across a table, asking to sign her.
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KS: So just literally write a $22017,225 cheque to Mark Zuckerberg and just be done with it, right?
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"One company basically offered us a blank cheque and said do whatever it takes to get it," he added.
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Analysts at Jefferies said Mondi could easily write a cheque of up to $2 billion to fund a deal.
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Earlier this month, the pro-government press dug up old allegations linking the mayoral hopeful to a counterfeit cheque.
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But not every guaquero can get one, and some prefer the thrill of the hunt to a pay cheque.
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Therefore, do not have a varied investment amount, have a consistent and rigid cheque size and stick to it.
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Prosecutors launched a probe against Mr Yavas on the basis of old claims connecting him to a forged cheque.
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Those who retire at 403 get a Social Security cheque that replaces just 29% of a median earner's income.
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It was the Pamplona native's first win on the LPGA Tour and earned her a winner's cheque for $300,000.
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"This additional financial support cannot be a blank cheque to these state-owned enterprises," Mboweni told parliament on Thursday.
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Kyrgios picked up a $310,000 winners' cheque and a shot of confidence in time for this week's Shanghai Masters.
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"It came as news to me, I don't know who is signing the cheque for $3.8 billion," he said.
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When the euro system has required someone to write a cheque, the pen has been brandished by Angela Merkel.
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"It's just amazing," a beaming Kerber, told an adoring crowd after being handed the winner's cheque of $3.5 million.
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"There's a lot of teams that if somebody comes along with the right cheque, they would sell," said Ecclestone.
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"It's just nice to be part of something," he says, picking up the cheque and getting up to pay.
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"To look like they were fighting corruption," past governments "created so many rules," he said at the cheque handover.
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For instance, WooCommerce supports credit card payments, direct bank transfers, cheque payments and cash on delivery out of the box.
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On 780 euros a month, he considers himself lucky, but says he lives from one pay cheque to the next.
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Before Russ had so much as released the track, Virgin stepped in with the cheque book, and turbocharged it's ascent.
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This is a factor of both the size of cheque we write and the profile of founder we're looking for.
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Retail investors still file paper applications to subscribe for shares and they pay in advance by cheque or cashier order.
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" - "I always thought it was extraordinary that we should agree to write that entire cheque before having a final deal.
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Another customer trying to cash a cheque for $4,538 said he had been told he could only receive $2,500 immediately.
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"No investor is going to write a cheque right away, but a good pitch is the first step," Asikainen says.
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"I will not consider a vote in my favor as a blank cheque," Macron told French television on Thursday night.
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Specifically, Crane is seeking pre-Series A startups based in Europe, with a willingness to write the first institutional cheque.
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With less oversight of the union and no control over its reserves, France may hesitate to write a blank cheque.
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"I still haven't signed anything and won't sign a blank cheque," Conte was reported as saying in Corriere della Sera.
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Though Future hasn't yet found his new partner, he's kneeling down, arms and heart open like a blank cheque book.
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Consistent strategy "Consistency is key," according to Cohen, and this rings true at the seed stage, with regards to cheque size.
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If a withdrawal is made the day before a customer's monthly pay-cheque clears, the customer will no longer be charged.
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IDMs are a type of automated teller machine that accepts deposits by both cash and cheque, and facilitate anonymous cash deposits.
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The whole thing ends up with the two interviewing each other, while Corden dashes backstage to fish out his cheque book.
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Much larger numbers fret about how far their next pay-cheque will stretch to trouble themselves with issues of environmental sustainability.
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My mother worked while my dad worked the farm because they needed the insurance, they needed the extra cheque, [for] their retirement.
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His iron-fisted approach to crime (he would give police a "blank cheque" to shoot miscreants) is popular with a bigger group.
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Obamacare's markets were always likely to limp on rather than collapse utterly, because they have a blank cheque from the federal government.
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But after the cuts to pensions, some Greeks have seen their monthly cheque fall between 40 and 13 percent in seven years.
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"When push comes to shove, they'll balance the parochialism with the party who is prepared to write the biggest cheque," said Silk.
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"They are still far from signing a cheque," one of the sources said, adding Calsonic was struggling to match FCA's price expectations.
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Moody's reckons Steinhoff, which already owns 20.9037 percent of Poundland, could write up to a 3.7 billion euro ($4.09 billion) cheque for acquisitions.
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Este jueves recibió un cheque de Atmos para comprar calentadores, hornallas eléctricas y un horno eléctrico — accesorios que suplanten la falta de gas.
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His retirement cheque, at first the same as his final salary, is bumped up every time current court workers get a pay rise.
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But rather than heading to court, the lawyers simply hopped on a plane to Barcelona and presented the cheque directly to Neymar's employer.
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"I went cap in hand to Cadbury's chocolates, and [chocolate heir] Brandon Cadbury himself came round with a cheque for £7,000," she recalls.
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The ink had scarcely dried on Walmart's cheque before the government radically changed the e-commerce rules that had underpinned Walmart's decision to invest.
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The modern cheque derives from an Arabic instrument, a written vow to pay for goods on delivery, to avoid carrying money on dangerous journeys.
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In a country where a bounced cheque risks landing the issuer in jail, many heavily indebted expatriates have opted to depart in recent months.
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Instead, the prince's allies should make clear that he does not have a blank cheque—and that his rule would benefit from more openness.
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Community organisations worry that if branches continue to close in poor areas, many neighbourhoods could become reliant on payday lenders and cheque-cashing stores.
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Can you be more specific with regards to cheque size and stage and any particular verticals, themes or technologies you plan to invest in?
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Financial necessity and the prospect of a 63,000 rupees ($73) monthly pay cheque trumped any patriarchal hesitation her father had about her new path.
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"This study underlines that work often isn't just about the pay-cheque — it can have a positive effect on mental wellbeing too," he said.
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He has no intention of writing his Syrian client a blank cheque that could result in lengthy, expensive and dangerous overstretch for Russia's forces.
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FOR China's leaders it is as if, having signed a postdated cheque in their country's favour, Western countries are threatening not to honour it.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - It's summer, which means top teams like Barcelona and Manchester United are brandishing their cheque books in the player-transfer market.
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"El arte no otorga un cheque en blanco para desatar sobre el otro la violencia, ni la violación puede ser nunca una 'licencia poética'".
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LGC's buyout loan was increased by £40m to £1.082bn, following strong investor demand, while the equity cheque was reduced, inflating leverage on the deal.
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"Raising the threshold of resale at a loss without asking for any effort, no accompaniment, no transformation, is a form of blank cheque," he added.
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Some of these JLMs that get included sometimes don't even have a syndicate desk, they just get a cheque at the end of the process.
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He also argues that when Mosaic write a cheque, the firm's interests are more aligned with the founders it backs than larger venture capital firms.
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She receives a disability cheque, and works when she can as a "secret shopper", checking in on petrol stations for the companies that own them.
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Investors have historically required face time, something founders have been willing to do as the balance of power has predominantly resided with the cheque writers.
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As they sought to adapt to the measure, some Indian businesses discharged their obligation simply by writing a cheque to a local school or hospital.
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The watchdog said that, with immediate effect, payments for "refused" services, such as when a cheque bounces, should be in line with actual costs incurred.
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Noren, who had four victories in a spectacular season last year, picked up a cheque for $1.16 million as he claimed his ninth tour win.
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And the private key is like a secret PIN or a signature on a cheque that allows the holder to transfer money from the account.
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The £1bn equity cheque requires around £500m from each sponsor, which will only just be inside 6% of both Blackstone and CVC's total fund size.
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The pair split the winning team's $2.24 million cheque and add their names to a trophy won by Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods.
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I think the people who do Rent Cheque for the most part want to have fun, but a lot of them could really use the money.
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But he couldn't cash his nice-guy cheque for sex, because despite her best efforts (and, my god, that girl tried) she wasn't feeling the chemistry.
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Anything less than 36%, answer American activists who want to curtail payday lending—pricey, short-term credit typically used as an advance on a pay cheque.
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The removal of covenants, particularly leverage, and the size of the equity cheque remain the main points of contention for lenders, one of the sources said.
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Can you be more specific regarding the size of cheque you write and the types of companies, technologies, business models or sectors you are focusing on?
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He was saying that companies, and European nations like Germany that do business with Iran are essentially writing a blank cheque to the revolutionary Iranian Guard.
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The central bank said it had told lenders in a circular to issue new customers with a cheque book containing a maximum of 10 individual cheques.
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Last year he was fined $10,000 and forfeited his first-round loser's cheque following a decision to walk off after losing the first set against Steve Johnson.
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The way the club initially operated—with it's cash and carry bought stock, and student cheque book scams—put Sykes in mind of his acid house days.
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Una noche la semana pasada, Martínez hizo fila por tres horas para recibir un cheque para comprar calentadores y otros artículos para reemplazar los aparatos a gas.
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The county moved up up one place from last year thanks to its riddance of the cheque levy, which made paying taxes easier, the World Bank found.
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It was the money transfer and cheque cashing activities of the pawnbrokers in question, rather than their traditional activities, that led banks to pull out, McDermott said.
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Now his architect son needs the funds to move abroad — like many young Lebanese graduates — the bank won't issue the U.S. dollars, not even in a cheque.
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A fourth round appearance means a A$240,000 ($192,000) cheque, nearly half the total prize money in his career, and a potentially life-changing leap in rankings.
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One door he knocked on was opened by Sir Tim Sainsbury, a former Tory minister and donor, who gave Mr Gyimah his endorsement (and a big cheque).
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A long-term decline in the use of cheques meant that, at some point, it would be appropriate to wind up the cheque system entirely, Low added.
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The prize money has been raised from 39.2 million euros ($44.48 million) up to 42.6 million, with the singles' winners each earning a cheque of 2.3 million euros.
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As long as the cheque clears, nothing stops a team from spending any sum of money on any player, thus the opportunity to make "improvements" are considered endless.
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"China's promise to expand its opening up is not just a cheque that can't be cashed," Xi told German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a side meeting in Osaka.
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He offered large discount — he offered a cheque(Drawn "to bearer") for seven-pounds-ten: But the Bandersnatch merely extended its neck And grabbed at the Banker again.
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A sweet-voiced special assistant of Mr Trump's announced she had a cheque for the builders which, she claimed, had been lying on her desk for a year.
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That can be deep tech (streaming technology), hardware (VR, motion capture etc), and software (platforms, industry-specific SaaS) What stage, size of cheque are they planning to write?
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But he showed few signs of nerves or fatigue as he wore down Thiem with his courageous all-court attacking game to pocket a $43 million winner's cheque.
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On average, 10% of your pay cheque goes to paying off the house if you're a first-time buyer and just 85% if you're already on the ladder.
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One night, he asked Mortimer to come up at the end of a joke and present him with a dinner table-sized cheque for £8 million for "ill kids".
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So the government have got our support for making a bill to improve [the investigatory powers framework] so we couldn't vote for it and give them a blank cheque.
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Millions set out on the road fame and fortune but only one player will be left holding the $250,000 winners' cheque come Sunday in the cavernous Thames-side arena.
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On "Sweepstakes," the rapper weaves his words around the off-kilter beat, and funky drums and horns courtesy of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, which flatten like an oversized cheque.
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"I hate writing," he admitted as he accepted a cheque for £50,000 ($61,000) from the Duchess of Cornwall at a dinner in London where the Man Booker winner was announced.
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Sure, that sounds suspiciously like a very simplified printer, but it's smarter than that—you'd never have to smudge another thank-you note, or sign a cheque for that matter.
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"By unlocking a slightly larger cheque at the very, very earliest stage, we think it will allow the companies to get to that next round in an even stronger position".
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But I believe the people who say that going from little or no support to getting a $1,400 monthly cheque in the mail makes a world of difference for them.
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"I think the real issue is blank cheque — it's what mandate does she [May] claim, both on Brexit and the health service, education and all the other things," Blair said.
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It's a tale involving thousands of dollars worth of industrial kitchen equipment, a hastily cashed certified cheque, and an amicable breakup that left me with a shawarma machine love child.
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Cinven's share of its €2.85bn equity cheque for Stada came from its €7bn sixth fund and Bain's from its newly-raised US$9.4bn global fund and its €3.4bn European fund.
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The VC typically invests between $250,000 and $1.5 million, from writing a startup's first cheque to Series A. It says it aims to do five-seven new investments per year.
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His clearest moment came at his last moment at the lectern: "writing a cheque that says 'payable to Trinity Lutheran Church' ought to be on the other side of the line".
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If you look at what happened in 2008, both the governments in Britain and America had the power to sign a massive cheque to rescue the banks and they did it.
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"It is outrageous that a company... would expect its workers to simply continue working while not knowing when to expect their next salary cheque," said Solidarity Deputy General Secretary Johan Botha.
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On the seed fund, can you be more specific regarding the size of cheque you write and the types of companies, technologies, business models or B2B sectors you are focusing on?
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A series of tax increases and subsidy cuts, along with the currency depreciation, have driven inflation to record levels in a country where millions live a pay cheque away from hunger.
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His prize was a cheque for $17,000 but the first-year professional said he had to push the financial implications of the constant traveling on tour to the back of his mind.
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"Data protection is a fundamental right, under the charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, so I don't think it's a question of just signing off a blank cheque," he added.
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Turning down a $2M dollar cheque and all that publicity and the records and clothes and make up she would have sold off the back of it…is God-Level Boss. pic.twitter.
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"They've so overdrawn their goodwill cheque account that there's not much they can do to push back on this," said Steve Harris, CEO of The Brand Agency, a communications and image consultant.
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Western support cannot be "a blank cheque", as America bluntly puts it; the more the West helps Saudi Arabia wage war in Yemen, the more it becomes liable for potential war crimes.
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With the average pay-cheque now growing faster than at any time since 2009—when layoffs of low-paid workers were artificially boosting average wages—that argument is getting harder to make.
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Menthol cigarettes were also removed, as were old style mobile phone handsets and the fee for stopping a cheque, a method of payment that has declined drastically in usage in recent years.
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Handing one of those tasks to a computerised helper leaves radiologists not with a redundancy cheque, but with more time to focus on other parts of their jobs—often the rewarding ones.
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The rich, whose income usually does not come in the form of a pay cheque, and those in the informal economy, like Mr Liu, find it comparatively easy to evade the taxman.
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He claimed that the real-estate mogul gave a cheque of $50,000 to the Gang of Eight, the bi-partisan group of senators who authored a comprehensive immigration-reform bill in 2013.
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By forcing every teacher to write a cheque to the union each month, the plaintiffs contended, the agency-fee regime compels dissenters to support ideas they reject, violating their freedom of speech.
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That win, which he described as being more stressful than watching his beloved Louisiana State University football team, earned him a cheque for $1.152 million and a spot at this week's Masters.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Just after 10:30 on a sunny August morning in downtown Nairobi, 48-year-old Ali Mwadama was walking toward a bank opposite the U.S. embassy, a cheque in hand.
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Every time I performed people came away from it like it was food to their souls, but that wasn't reflecting in my pay cheque so in 2013 I went on The Voice.
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"If you ask them directly what they value about the opportunity to work, they don't start with the pay cheque," REDF's president Carla Javits told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
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Ada says that they will look to invest a £500,000 first cheque – which comes post-initial product but pre-larger seed round – and reserve roughly half the fund for follow-on investments.
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Nothing shouts "Big Sam sends Bill Kenwright provocative come-and-get-me plea" like a man blouse with an enormous open collar, cheque elbow patches and a red-white-and-blue plaid trim.
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Today she has her hands in a bunch of sex-positive parties, the newest launching next week, the crown jewel being an East Vancouver club night and amateur strip show called Rent Cheque.
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The remit of the new "Fund II" is largely unchanged from the first fund, promising to write the first cheque of between $50,000 and $75,000 for the most promising founders in the region.
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When recipients settle in poorer areas, where market rents are actually below the FMR, landlords who specialise in low-income housing reap the benefits of a guaranteed, possibly inflated, government cheque each month.
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The case in the emirate of Sharjah related to a cheque for 798.9 million dirhams ($218 million), signed by Naqvi and Rafique Lakhani, and written to Hamid Jafar, another founding shareholder in Abraaj.
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Meanwhile, regarding Kindred's investment remit, Buckley says it targets seed investments with an average cheque size in the first round of £700,000 and prefers to be the first institutional money into a company.
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In 23, shortly after Flipkart announced a $21 billion round of funding, Mr Bezos donned Indian clothes in Bangalore, hopped aboard a rainbow-coloured truck and handed Mr Agarwal a $2 billion cheque.
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Asked by Sky News where the money would be coming from, junior Treasury minister Rishi Sunak said it was "not a blank cheque" for spending but that Britain could afford to borrow more.
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A recent Morgan Stanley research report highlighted the $5bn a year bill that Bank of America, one of the world's biggest retail banks, racks up processing cash and cheque transactions and servicing ATMs.
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The murders were even more damning because Jutting had been given every possible material advantage in life from a very privileged upbringing to a great career and immense pay cheque, the judge said.
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Grocery store supply chains are still working well, Morneau said, but urged Canadians to "please keep goods on shelves" for "Canadians who are waiting for a cheque to come" before they can shop.
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SHARJAH, July 15 (Reuters) - A criminal case against private equity firm Abraaj founder Arif Naqvi and another executive for issuing a cheque without sufficient funds has been dismissed, the presiding judge said on Sunday.
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"(The DUP deal) provides a blank cheque for a Tory Brexit which threatens the (1998) Good Friday Agreement," Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said in a statement, referring to the Northern Irish peace accord.
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Their excuses—that the cheque was only ever provisional, that their domestic politics make it impossible and that times have changed anyway—serve only to confirm the impression of defaulters wriggling off the hook.
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With sponsorship deals, appearance money and other income spinning ventures, including rapping and modeling, the 22-year-old Lyles will not have to wonder where his next meal and rent cheque is coming from.
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Santos defended the fact that FARC rebel leaders had not been invited to the award ceremony, where he will receive a gold medal, a Nobel diploma and a cheque for 8 million Swedish crowns ($876,000).
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"2015 may eventually be labelled the year the Swiss regained confidence with a select group of wealth managers choosing to support growth through the corporate cheque book," said managing partner of Scorpio Partnership, Sebastian Dovey.
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These features are a smart move in that they've opened Lamar up to a bigger demographic and an even larger cheque, yet incredibly haven't diminished his credibility, presumably because Lamar's verses are always on point.
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But having watched Britain's Spencer 'Gorilla' Ealing beat Germany's Kai Wollin and walk away with a $200,000 cheque last August, Gullit realized esports had evolved from "geeky" kids fiddling with their controllers in "stinky" bedrooms.
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Firms tend not to cut their workers' nominal wages (the numbers on the pay cheque), and when inflation is low they cannot achieve such large savings by keeping pay constant in the face of rising prices.
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Many countries have seen digital payments take off in the past few years; in India, where little over a decade ago a cheque could take more than two weeks to clear, it feels like a revolution.
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For lots of people, your refund will be the biggest cheque you get this year, so squeezing every last penny out of it is especially important at an age when finances are likely still pretty tight.
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The court case relates to a cheque for 177.1 million dirhams ($48 million), signed by Naqvi and a fellow executive, and written to Hamid Jafar, another founding shareholder in Dubai-based Abraaj, a prosecution document showed.
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Blair faced hostile questioning from national and international media, who said his assurances to former U.S. President George Bush had amounted to a "blank cheque for war" and that he had abandoned diplomatic channels too easily.
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Finland's minister of health and social affairs Pirkko Mattila said the impact on employment of the monthly pay cheque of 560 euros ($635) "seems to have been minor on the grounds of the first trial year".
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"One client said he'd write a three-month forward-dated cheque, but when I got it, it was for six months," he said, as fork lifts trundled by with stacks of freshly spray-painted red panels.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Australia's Nick Kyrgios has been fined $10,000 and deducted his $21,000 first-round losers' cheque following his decision to walk off after losing the first set against Steve Johnson in the Shanghai Masters on Tuesday.
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"You'll find that all the sponsors of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras are all, without a doubt, giving something significant to that community, even if it's in the form of a bloody big cheque," Ferrier said.
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Labour, in turn, said the government was using the bill to give itself wide-ranging powers and a "blank cheque" to do away with laws if ministers did not like them, threatening the rights of ordinary Britons.
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Its initial cheque size is typically $500,000, although I'm told that the Playfair team likes to engage with founders at the earliest stages of a startup's journey, including occasionally investing smaller amounts at the pre-seed stage.
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In these circumstances the referendum result could be interpreted as providing a blank cheque for the government to press ahead with the best deal that it can negotiate, with no requirement for further ratification from the electorate.
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He lost two friends that day, his livelihood as a voiceover artist and public speaker, and the cheque he was going to cash, earned for voicing a Coca-Cola ad aired during the 1998 soccer World Cup.
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WeChat's wallet function is so successful, it's practically ubiquitous in real-life use in China, where people use it for everything from paying street vendors, to getting the cheque at restaurants and shops by scanning a QR code.
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Rumours circulated about his various perks, including an official flat, police car and fat pay cheque, as well as his permit to carry a weapon—originally denied to him by the Interior Ministry, but secured by the Elysée.
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The Sharjah court case relates to a cheque for 177.1 million dirhams ($48 million), signed by Naqvi and a fellow executive, and written to Hamid Jafar, another founding shareholder in Dubai-based Abraaj, according to a prosecution document.
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Fund two sat at €140 million, so this new fund is a slight increase in size — as is the initial cheque size the VC plans to write out of fund three: "up to $7 million," the firm says.
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Born Jason Harrow in Toronto's Scarborough district, Kardinal's mother worked for the Board of Education ("pre good cheque," stresses Kardi) while his dad worked at a factory that made "the rubber for those [conveyor] belts" at grocery checkouts.
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Just to conclude, if you dont mind sending me a direct message to confirm that this is a winner i would be more than happy to pass on my postal address so you can send me my winners cheque.
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Their investigation dug into the limits of automation: as in the case of the stubborn 3% of cheques which persistently elude efforts to computerise the entirety of the cheque-processing system, and which must be parsed by human workers.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Irish nationalists Sinn Fein said a deal struck on Monday by their pro-British rivals to prop up British Prime Minister Theresa May's government provides a "blank cheque" for a Brexit that threatens peace in Northern Ireland.
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The FN says Societe Generale closed its accounts earlier this month, and when the central bank ordered a subsidiary, Credit du Nord, to manage an account for the party, the bank refused to process cheque and credit card payments.
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With little to separate the leading pack heading into the final kilometer, Bikila produced a late charge to cross the line in 23:22, 221 seconds ahead of his fellow debutant Kiprono, to collect the winner's cheque of $255,000.
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But the court, which sees no problem with military coups, quibbled about how long it took him to cash the cheque from the sale and noted that the documents proving his case came from the company, not from regulators.
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Most likely is that she will, as is her wont, ride out the theatrics of the overwrought male politicians around her then propose some fudge and prevail; probably involving whipping out the federal cheque book at the upcoming EU summit.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Randolph county, Alabama, for instance, for jailing Kandace Edwards, an army veteran who was seven months pregnant, because she could not afford a $123,500 bond after being arrested for forging a $75 cheque.
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In Texas only around 213% of TANF funding goes to cash welfare, which means that in 221-2400 only 23% of poor families with children in Texas received a cheque, compared with 23% nationally and 65% in California, according to CBPP.
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Por el contrario: la RBU le da a los trabajadores menos razones para holgazanear en casa en comparación con políticas perversas como aquella en la que un dólar ganado es un dólar menos para el cheque de la asistencia social.
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"The parties have agreed terms for the resolution of the current proceedings before the Sharjah Criminal Court relating to a dishonoured cheque issued by Mr Arif Naqvi and another individual," said Jafar's attorney Zafer Oghli, a partner at Al Tamimi & Company.
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"I see (a bid from a U.S. rival) as doubtful as ICE especially, in my eyes, wants to see more substance on Brexit negotiations before pulling their cheque book out," said a top-20 LSE shareholder, who declined to be named.
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The Penang government gave him a cheque for 10,000 ringgit ($2,400) for bringing fame and glory to the state and country, while his manager Jacksen Tiago told him to push regular set-piece taker, Argentine Mathias Cordoba, for more opportunities.
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Standing on the podium waiting to be handed her trophy and a winner's cheque for $3.8 million, Osaka heard only boos as an angry crowd took out their frustration on Portuguese chair umpire Carlos Ramos, who stood to the side.
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But defense lawyer Peter Brauti pleaded for a sentence more lenient than the mandatory four or five years, and tried to keep his client, who has still been collecting a pay cheque as an officer, out of a jail cell.
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Blackstone is writing its equity cheque for the £53bn buyout of UK payments firm Paysafe from its US$18bn seventh fund, which is one of the largest funds ever raised, while CVC is drawing the cash from its €11bn sixth fund.
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London-based Ada Ventures (named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer) which launched quietly earlier this year, has now announced that it aims to address this problem with a new $34m (£27m) fund, designed as a "first-cheque" seed fund.
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"It is never a great experience for a CEO to be writing such a large cheque...but unfortunately that is the price we are paying to get this organization into a much better shape," RBS Chief Executive Ross McEwan told reporters.
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Preocupados, unos niños recaudaron fondos y le enviaron un cheque por 400 dólares a la investigadora Drew Harvell, quien usó el dinero para determinar que las estrellas girasol están desapareciendo en parte debido a las temperaturas más altas de los mares.
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But what Mr Trump seems to want is that America's allies in the western Pacific and Europe write a cheque to cover the entire cost of keeping American forces on their territory, which he says amounts to "trillions of dollars" over the years.
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On November 27th a bipartisan group in the House of Representatives introduced a bill to tax emissions and redistribute the proceeds as a cheque to citizens, though this looks doomed so long as Mr Trump's fellow Republican climate sceptics control the Senate.
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But while the survival of the regime was the objective, it is now clear that Mr Putin was never inclined to give Mr Assad the kind of military blank cheque needed for him to take back all or even most of the country.
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With expectations growing of heavy measures against dissent, European politicians warned Erdogan the coup attempt did not give him a blank cheque to disregard the rule of law, and that he risked isolating himself internationally as he strengthens his position at home.
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DUBAI, July 5 (Reuters) - A Sharjah court has adjourned until July 11 a case involving the founder of private equity firm Abraaj, Arif Naqvi, and another executive for issuing a cheque without sufficient funds, a lawyer involved in the case said on Thursday.
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"If you ask me why I do this, to be honest, I don't really know if I can make money," Zhou Hongyi, chairman of Qihoo, said at an event where he presented a contestant with a 13 million yuan ($156,115.84) prize cheque two weeks ago.
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But he insisted that last summer's Catalan parliamentary votes that ended Rajoy's premiership could not represent a "blank cheque" of support for his successor if he was not prepared to take further concrete action to address the demands of the local legislature in Barcelona.
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In 2014, its founder Jeff Bezos donned a white Indian wedding suit and climbed aboard a truck in Bangalore, India's technology capital, and handed a giant cheque for $2 billion, the amount it planned to invest in the country, to its new Indian operations chief.
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Last year, authorities formally charged him with having received a cheque for 10 million baht ($304,000) in 2004, in relation to a prior corruption case over fradulent loans of 9.9 billion baht made by state-owned Krungthai Bank when his father was prime minister.
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There, the West's three biggest missile-makers, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin of America and MBDA of Europe, were keen to show off their latest kit in the sunshine, especially to the smartly-dressed and cheque-book carrying military delegations visiting from around the world.
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"What we are talking about today is an attempt by principally Labour and the SNP (Scottish National Party) to remove control of the order paper from the government and to write themselves a blank cheque for a specified day in the future," May's spokesman said.
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"If you ask me why I do this, to be honest, I don't really know if I can make money," Zhou Hongyi, chairman of Qihoo, said at an event where he presented a contestant with a 1 million yuan ($156,115.84) prize cheque two weeks ago.
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LPs in the fund include the European Investment Fund (EIF), Korelya Capital, and a number of unnamed family offices from Europe and the U.S. Specifically, Fly Ventures will be writing cheque sizes of $400,000 to $900,000 into seed rounds of between $1 million and $2.5 million.
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There are many recent examples of 'skip' cases, where SME owners have fled the UAE when they could not repay their bank loans because, as under domestic personal criminal law, expatriate borrowers can be jailed if they bounce a cheque or fall behind on their financial obligations.
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The employee was "responsible for signing cheques for approved payments made by NMGML at the time, including a cheque regarding the agreed LTF process," the miner said, referring to the Land Task Force (LTF) set up by the government and North Mara Gold Mine Limited (NMGML).
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While it is acknowledged that the company can justifiably take such high leverage, given it is highly cash generative, delevers quickly, is backed with a large equity cheque and is in a strong sector, some banks have been prevented from doing it from a regulatory standpoint.
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He cannot throw the papers away because the wastepaper basket is already overflowing, and besides, somewhere among the unanswered letters and unpaid bills it is possible that there is a cheque for two guineas which he is nearly certain he forgot to pay into the bank. . . .
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But the model has not be used in the nuclear industry, so talks are likely to be tough as the government seeks a clear outline of how much it would have to spend over a specified period and works to avoid writing a blank cheque to cover cost overruns.
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As a result, Lyft, Ola and Grab may not be able to count on Didi's cheque-book being open far into the future (although rumours surfaced this week that Didi is in fact involved in a new $600m round of financing for Grab and will continue with it).
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In 1996, he effectively sounded the death knell on his own career when he starred in The Island of Dr Moreau, a famously woeful film in which his second-rate performance, exorbitant pay cheque and open hostility on set left few in Hollywood wanting to hire him again.
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"The activities that Cerberus and Centerbridge would sell have a book value of roughly 500 million euros, but only proceeds above book value would reduce the equity cheque that NordLB needs," one of the other people said, adding that the additional cash inflow was expected to be rather marginal.
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The rules, the DoJ insists, do "not prohibit any company in which the president has any financial interest from doing business with any foreign, federal, or state instrumentality" but merely bar the most obvious kind of corruption: a foreign government sending the president a cheque for doing them a favour.
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The celebration after her Auckland Classic victory was not as effusive as some of her previous 72 title wins, and the $43,63 winner's cheque, which she donated to Australia bushfire relief efforts, was a drop in the ocean for someone who has won almost $93 million in career prize-money.
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HS: We would love to take mixed use, luxury apartments, which is our speciality, we don't mind to go in to office buildings, retail, so we're looking at property from all the angles, and we're willing to write a big cheque, and go in a big way in London, we believe in London.
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There are perhaps more coins and bills on display than most people would care to inspect, even though a £100m banknote (to underwrite the banknotes that are issued by Scotland's banks) and a cheque for £2bn (part of the proceeds of the privatisation of the water services in 1989) might raise some eyebrows.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a bank regulator, reckons that 43m still have no bank account at all, although the number is declining fast, and another 24m are "underbanked"—meaning that they go outside the banking system to meet their financial needs, turning to services such as cheque-cashing or payday loans.
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Because plenty can go wrong between the promise of a payment (eg, writing a cheque or making a digital purchase) and its actual settlement (the money arriving into the bank account of the seller), clearing houses sit in the middle of transactions to process them and insulate both sides against credit risk.
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What happened was Akon wanted to take his label and he wanted to have it be an international-based label, as opposed to it being based in L.A. So I had a disaster clause in my deal and I was able to get out of my deal and get a cheque at the same time.
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JF: We're focused on Europe, with the occasional investment in the US. We're firmly Seed and Series A, with cheque sizes ranging from €250K to €5 million, allowing us to also participate in the large Series As. TC: You talk about Heartcore Capital being "founders first" and having more empathy for the founder than returns alone.
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His primary campaign, which he mounted with the aid of a life-size cut-out of Mr Trump he found on Amazon, a fake cardboard cheque for a trillion dollars (payable to: "Burden of Future Generations") and a couple of volunteers to hold them, may be the most doomed action the venerable port has ever witnessed.
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I was always urging the silent minutes to wash over me so I didn't have to endure another second of an office job I hated but paid well enough to keep me in an eternal month-to-month, year-to-year cycle of waiting for the end of the day, the end of the week, or the next pay cheque.
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She was off to a great start after the Bombers' Ryan Lankford returned a 105-yard touchdown on the first play of the game, and then appeared to be on her way to a $1 million cheque before it was even halftime as Jackson returned one to the house in the second quarter, seemingly scoring the game's second kick-return TD. It was called back, though, and on a pretty iffy call by all accounts.
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